Period:Unknown Production date:1669 (c.)
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:chinese costume courtesan/prostitute
Dimensions:Height: 100 millimetres Width: 155 millimetres
Description:
A Chinese pimp walking to right on a hill path, leading a mule, on which a young veiled girl is seated; letterpress on verso; illustration to Johannes Nieuhof’s ‘An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China’ (London: 1669, p.169). Etching
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Comments:See New Hollstein (Hollar) 2038-2112 for plates for this book, which contained seventy three plates and a title-page by Hollar. See also R164-166 for illustrations previously attributed to Hollar.
Materials:paper
Technique:etching
Subjects:chinese costume courtesan/prostitute
Dimensions:Height: 100 millimetres Width: 155 millimetres
Description:
A Chinese pimp walking to right on a hill path, leading a mule, on which a young veiled girl is seated; letterpress on verso; illustration to Johannes Nieuhof’s ‘An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China’ (London: 1669, p.169). Etching
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Comments:See New Hollstein (Hollar) 2038-2112 for plates for this book, which contained seventy three plates and a title-page by Hollar. See also R164-166 for illustrations previously attributed to Hollar.
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